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Candidates for Class Committee must notify their House Election Committee by midnight Friday and the election will be Tuesday. The marshals and committeemen elect a class secretary, a treasurer and two class agents from each house...
...infiltrated a yippie group known as the Headhunters, and soon rose to the dizzying position of personal bodyguard to the yippie leader, Jerry Rubin. Pierson told how he had attended a yippie party in suburban Chicago where there was plenty of dope and girls, and informed the shocked committeemen, "They drank, took pills and engaged in sex." As for Rubin Pierson testified, "he said we were to kill the pigs, all the presidential candidates and Mayor Daley. We were to disrupt the city." Later in a rebuttal, Rubin insisted, "It's all lies, crazy, vicious lies. Cops are killers...
...first glance, Mexico City's newest hotel, the $24 million Camino Real, looks like a fortress. To guests, including the International Olympic committeemen checking in last week, that might have been a reassuring thought while students battled the army. But nothing could have been farther from the mind of Architect Ricardo Legorreta when he designed the hotel. His aim had been simply to create an oasis of greenery and quiet in the center of a bustling, dusty city. "People are pushed and rushed too much," says Legorreta. "To me, one of the nicest things a hotel...
Will he assert his independence? The answer depends partly on how the typical delegate was chosen. Amid the bewildering variety of state election laws, he could be hand-picked by his Governor, elected by a state convention, or selected by a tiny elite of state party committeemen. In only 15 states do registered voters elect delegates in primaries, which may be more or less open; another three states, including New York, pick some delegates by primaries while party leaders name others. Whatever the mechanics, unless the delegate is an insurgent, it is highly likely that he goes to the convention...
Novotný's entire faction. He warned the committee that the party's capacity for action was threatened by "those forces who by words recognize the correctness of the new policy, but have not yet overcome their old opinions." In the end, the vote of the 110 committeemen was unanimous; even the 40 or so conservatives dutifully raised their hands against Novotn...